Moonshine Cinema Projection Building
Jason Galterio
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I never realized that the original Moonshine Drive In model was missing the projection building.
I went back and checked and, sure enough, no projection room.
Realistically, if the room is on the ground, it would have to be set significantly back from the screen. That might not have been fesible back in the day.
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I asked about the same thing 4 years ago in the Platinum Club sub-forum. Jack Tomalin expressed interest, but as you can see, here it is, 4 years later, and...well...
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/projection-room-full-photogrammetry-scan-7cd03d4060ba4c6d91bde0949f71f5d9
Based on the responses, I am guessing no one noticed this? https://www.daz3d.com/moonshine-cinema-projection-building
Well I'm glad to see that new product although I honestly assumed the projection room was in the same building as the ticket office. I guess the Moonshine Diner itself is the consession stand although I've never been to a drive-in that had such a sit-in restaurant on the premises there probably were some.
No, I assumed you knew about that product and was referring to it as you mentioned a projection room being at ground level would need to be well back from the movie screen.
the Moonshine Diner reminds me of the one in the Thor films, which is a former Drivie in Concession repurposed.
I actually only ever rendered it as a restaurant not in a drivein as nothing like drive ins I went to as a kid in Australia which were far more primitive
many were only a projection building in a paddock, a smelly toilet block and a caravan selling drinks with one paying from their car at the gate, clunky speakers on poles that sounded like crap.
To be honest, I totally missed the other new products until I picked up the bundles and cleared them out of the listing. That's when I noticed this and went looking to see if it was an Iray re-texture of an old model... That's when it dawned on me that the original never had a projection set up.
I've only been to three drive ins. Two that I can't remember very well as they are in the dim recesses of my memory... but I think one of them had a sit down sort of place kind of like the Moonshine Diner. Meant for people who didn't want to sit in their cars. It did have more outdoor seating though.
that projection building looks cool though, I don't own it or the screen even AFAIK as I said I never used the diner in a drive in, or rendered a drive in.
I might one day to use all my DAZ cars
No...! Really, I was NOT aware! When was this released? I just have missed it way back when.
No way! It even has a Poser installer! I'm beyong flabbergasted. I'm flaggerblasted!
Sincerely...shocked,
Bill
It's one of today's new releases, hence, I guess, the post on not having previously noticed there wasn't a projection building.
Well, I just bought it and downloading the files as I type. Ah, just finished.
Leave it to me to cause confusion. It's one of my inate skills.
But yes, and like I mentioned, I missed it too. It was buried in all of the bundle items. Once I bought the bundles I noticed the other new items.
I liked that it was a full interior, and looks like some of the older projection rooms I've been in. So it doesn't have to be solely used with the drive in. It could easily be placed with a theater interior just outside the window.
You need the diner in case your characters want to order a Pepsi!
I paid 50¢ to see that movie. Feeling pretty old right now.
ah I did in fact miss it was new, as I said looks good may grab soon
Or a Coke for those of us who like the good stuff :P
...yeah, but I like Ginger Beer, with real cane sugar.
Real cane sugar is the only way to go. which is why I buy Mexican coke and that is the best Coke. (Ginger ale and root beer with cane sugar is good too.)
Ah, thanks for confirming that. I have never seen one like that.
No problem. I could be wrong as I am going purely on memory, but this is the teater that I am thinking of: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6938
The layout as I can recall it, was...
The admission building was along side the road. Two of the screen(s) were behind it; positioned so that you would be looking at the side of the screen from the there. The "parking lots" were on either side of the screen structure. You had the choice of which screen you went to. I want to say that there was a third screen, either behind one of the lots or just to the side of it.
Underneath the screens, at least on one side was a playground. Which I wasn't allowed to go to. The story being it "wasn't safe" or you weren't allowed while the film was going. But both of those are suspect.
In the picture with the film playing you can see there is a structure to the right of the screen. I believe this is the diner I am thinking of. I distinctly remember there being a seating area inside it. Not too many free standing tables, but booths near the windows. I also remember there being picnic tables all around that area too. What I can't recall is if there was table service / servers. My gut tells me no.
The projection booth was somewhere in the back of the lot. I want to say that it was on a second story and not on the ground, but my memory is telling me that it wasn't anything elaborate. I keep thinking there was a wall and the projection room was built into it, but I'm not positive. That's making me think that one side had that sort of set up while the other side had smaller freestanding projection room.
Awesome. Thanks for the info as I was myself trying to remember what the drive-ins I was taken to 1974 & prior were like. I've not been to one since 1974 but there is one still locally operating.
What I was trying to remember but couldn't was upclose to the movie screen where you wouldn't want anyone to park was blocked off in a way that wouldn't all parking and you reminded me with what. There was actually a children's playground with swings, merry-go-round, slides, monkeybars and that sort of thing.
The ticketing admission booth you drove by near the main entrance on the road and paid. The concession stand was smack dab in the middle of the drive-in parking lot and wasn't bigger than 50'Lx20'Wx10'H and made of cinderblocks with ordering windows like a early McDonald's and no customer sitdown. It was all carry away. If you had trouble finding it it was easy all you had to do was look for the beam of light from the projector building somewhat far directly back from the concession stand.
The last movie I ever saw at a drive in was Superdad in the summer of 1974 but I also remember seeing Herbie the Love Bug, The Shaggy Dog, and Billy Jack, prior to Superdad. So looking up when those movies were made only Superdad was a somewhat recent movie at the time of my first viewing at the drive-in. They also had kung-fu movies (still remember the shock of seeing a preview of one of them after Billy Jack ended, so violent!) which were huge at the time but I saw none of them.
Sorry to revive a necro thread, but I thought this would be helpful information...
I watched a movie today from 1968 called "Targets" with Boris Karloff. I don't want to give away any details, but the climax of the movie is in a drive in. Both during the day and at night. Some pretty good reference views of the theater in daylight, during operation at night, and the projection room.
I will warn you that the movie is a thriller and the subject matter of the movie is fairly intense. It's not overally graphic, but it is fairly violent in possibly a traumatic sort of way.